Sunday, December 16, 2007

A Tiny Revolution: Robert Parry On Our Excitingly Incipient Nightmarish Dystopia

A Tiny Revolution: Robert Parry On Our Excitingly Incipient Nightmarish Dystopia:

"U.S. forces in Iraq soon will be equipped with high-tech equipment that will
let them process an Iraqi’s biometric data in minutes and help American soldiers
decide whether they should execute the person or not, according to its
inventor."


This sounds scary, but in use it could be a good thing. If you can use it to tell you that person A crossing the street ahead is a civilian, but person B five yards further down is a terrorist, it is a useful tool. This confusion is one reason that civilians get killed in wars like Iraq, and Vietnam-where this inventor came from.

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